Ukiyo-e artists may be organized into schools, which consist of a founding artist and those artists who were taught by or strongly influenced by him. Artists of the Osaka school are united both stylistically and geographically. Not all of these artists designed woodblock prints, and some ukiyo-e artists had more than one teacher, and others are not known to be associated with any particular school.
Asayama school (in Osaka)
- Asayama Ashikuni (founder)
- Ashisato
- Ashifune
- Ashihiro
- Ashikiyo
- Asayama Ashitaka
- Asayama Ashitomo
- Gigadō Ashiyuki (Nagakuni)
- Jukōdō Yoshilkuni
Eishi school (also known as Hosoda school)
- Chōbunsai Eishi (founder)
- Ichirakute Eisui
- Chōkōsai Eishō
- Chōkyōsai Eiri
- Gessai Gabimaru
- Chōensai Eishin
- Rekisentei Eiri
- Harukawa Eizan
Furuyama school
- Furuyama Moroshige (founder)
- Furuyama Moromasa
- Furuyama Morotane
- Furuyama Morotsugu
Harukawa Eizan school
- Harukawa Eizan (founder)
- Harukawa Goshichi
- Harukawa Eichō
Harunobu school
- Suzuki Harunobu (founder)
- Isoda Koryūsai
- Shiba Kōkan (Suzuki Harushige)
- Yasunobu
- Komai Yoshinobu
- Suzuki Haruji
- Masunobu
- Mitsunobu
- Naka Kuninobu
- Morino Sōgyoku
- Ueno Shōha
Hasegawa school (in Osaka)
- Hasegawa Sadanobu I (founder)
- Hasegawa Sadanobu II
- Hasegawa Settan
- Hasegawa Settei
Hishikawa school (also known as the Moronobu school)
- Hishikawa Moronobu (founder)
- Hishikawa Morofusa
- Hishikawa Moroyoshi
- Hishikawa Moronaga
- Hishikawa Moroshige
- Hishikawa Morohira
- Tamazaki Ryūjo
Hokusai school
- Katsushika Hokusai (Shunrō, Sōri, Taitō)
- Katsushika ōi
- Yanagawa Shigenobu
- Yanagawa Nobusada (Yanagawa Yukinobu)
- Hishikawa Sōri
- Katsushika Hokumei
- Teisai Hokuba
- Maki Bokusen
- Numata Gessai
- Shōtei Hokuju
- Totoya Hokkei
- Ryūryūkyo Shinsai
- Hōtei Gosei
- Katsushika Hokuun
- Katsushika Taito II
- Katsushika Isai
- Katsushika Hokui
- Enkōan
Ippitsusai Bunchō school
- Ippitsusai Bunchō (founder)
- Tsumuri no Hikaru
- Tamagawa Shūchō
Ishikawa Toyonobu school
- Ishikawa Toyonobu (founder)
- Ishikawa Toyomasa
Kaigetsudō school
- Kaigetsudō Ando (founder)
- Kaigetsudō Anchi
- Kaigetsudō Dohan
- Kaigetsudō Doshin
- Kaigetsudō Doshu
- Kaigetsudō Doshū
- Hasegawa Eishun (Baiōken Eishun)
- Matsuno Chikanobu
Katsukawa school (also known as the Shunshō school)
- Katsukawa Shunshō (founder)
- Koikawa Harumachi I
- Katsukawa Shunrō
- Katsukawa Shun’ei
- Katsukawa Shuntei
- Katsukawa Shun’en
- Katsukawa Shundō II
- Katsukawa Shunrin
- Katsukawa Shōju
- Katsukawa Shundō
- Katsukawa Shunzan
- Katsukawa Shunjō
- Katsukawa Shunsen (Katsukawa Shunkō II)
- Katsukawa Shunchō
- Katsukawa Shunkō I
- Katsukawa Shungyō
- Tamagawa Shunsui
- Kinchōdō Sekiga
- Katsukawa Shunri
- Katsukawa Shunwa
Keisai Eisen school
- Keisai Eisen (founder)
- Isono Bunsai
- Yamatoya Sada
- Teisai Senchō
- Senshōtei Toyotsuru
Kitagawa school (also known as Utamaro school)
- Kitagawa Utamaro (founder)
- Kitagawa Utamaro II
- Maki Bokusen
- Kitagawa Chiyojo
- Kitagawa Fujimaro
- Kitagawa Tsukimaro
- Chōchōdō Kagenori
- Kitagawa Yukimaro
- Kitagawa Shikimaro
- Kitagawa Yoshimaro
- Eishōsai Chōki
- Kitagawa Hidemaro
- Juka Sekijō
- Soraku
- Michimaro
- Chikanobu
- Bunrō
- Isomaro
- Hishikawa Ryūkoku
- Rakumaro
- Minemaro
- Senman
Kitao school (also known as the Shigemasa school)
- Kitao Shigemasa (founder)
- Kitao Shigemasa II
- Kubo Shunman
- Kitao Masanobu
- Kitao Masayoshi
Koikawa school
- Koikawa Harumachi I (founder)
- Koikawa Harumachi II
- Koikawa Harumasa
- Koikawa Hakuga
Kondō school
- Kondō Kiyoharu (founder)
- Kondō Kiyonobu
- Kondō Katsunobu
Miyagawa school
- Miyagawa Chōshun (founder)
- Miyagawa Isshō
- Miyagawa Chōki
- Miyagawa Shunsui
Nishikawa school (also known as the Sukenobu school)
- Nishikawa Sukenobu (founder)
- Nishikawa Suketada
- Kawashima Nobukiyo
- Nishikawa Terunobu
- Takagi Sadatake
Nishimura school (also known as the Shigenaga school)
- Nishimura Shigenaga (founder)
- Ishikawa Toyonobu
- Nishimura Shigenobu
- Suzuki Harunobu
- Yamamoto Fujinobu
- Tomikawa Fusanobu
- Yamamoto Yoshinobu
- Hirose Shigenobu
Okumura school (also known as the Masanobu school)
- Okumura Masanobu (founder)
- Okumura Nobufusa
- Okumura Toshinobu
- Tanaka Masunobu
- Mangetsudō
Ōoka school (in Osaka)
- Ōoka Shunboku (founder)
- Takehara Shunchōsai
Osaka school
- Ryūkōsai Jokei (founder)
- Shōkōsai Hanbei
- Shunkōsai Hokushū (Shunkō IV)
- Shōkōsai Hanbei
- Ashikuni
- Ashiyuki (Nagakuni)
- Enjaku
- Yoshida Hanbei
- Hikokuni
- Hironobu
- Hirosada I
- Hirosada II
- Shunbaisai Hokuei (Shunkō III)
- Hokumyō
- Kagematsu
- Kikyo
- Kiyosada
- Kunihiro
- Kunikazu
- Kunimasu (Sadamasu)
- Kunishige
- Mitsukuni
- Munehiro
- Nagahide
- Nobukatsu
- Yanagawa Nobusada
- Sadahiro I
- Sadahiro II
- Sadanobu I
- Sadanobu II
- Sadayoshi
- Shigefusa
- Shigeharu
- Shigenobu
- Shunkyō
- Shunshi
- Shunshō
- Shûshō
- Tokusai
- Toyohide
- Utakuni
- Yoshifune
- Yoshikuni I
- Yoshikuni II
- Yoshitaki
- Yoshiume
- Yoshiyuki
Ryūkōsai school (in Osaka)
- Ryūkōsai Jokei (founder)
- Shōkōsai Hanbei
- Urakusai Nagahide
Shigenobu school
- Yanagawa Shigenobu I (founder)
- Yanagawa Shigenobu II
- Tōrōsai Shigemitsu
Shunkōsai Fukushū school (in Osaka)
- Shunkōsai Fukushū (founder)
- Shunshosai Hokuchō
- Gatōken Shunshi
- Shunbaisai Hokuei (Shunkō III)
- Seiyōsai Shunshi
Torii school
- Torii Kiyomoto (founder)
- Torii Kiyonobu I (co-founder)
- Torii Kiyonobu II
- Torii Kiyomasu I
- Torii Kiyomasu II
- Torii Kiyomitsu I
- Torii Kiyotsune
- Torii Kiyohiro
- Torii Kiyosato
- Torii Kiyonaga
- Torii Kiyomasa I
- Torii Kiyomine I
- Hanegawa Chinchō
- Kondō Kiyoharu
- Torii Kiyotada
- Katsukawa Terushige
- Torii Kiyotomo
- Torii Kiyoshige I
- Torii Kotondo
Toyohara school
- Toyohara Kunichika (founder)
- Yōshū Chikanobu (Toyohara Chikanobu)
- Watanabe Nobukazu
- Toyohara Chikaharu
- Morikawa Chikashige
- Toyohara Chikayoshi
- Toyohara Chikasato
Utagawa school
- Utagawa Toyoharu (founder)
- Utagawa Toyohiro
- Utagawa Hirochika II
- Utagawa Toyokuni I
- Utagawa Kunimasa
- Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
- Utagawa Kunisada II
- Utagawa Kunisada III
- Utagawa Sadahide
- Utagawa Sadakage
- Utagawa Sadafusa
- Utagawa Fusatane
- Utagawa Sadahiro
- Utagawa Kuniteru II
- Utagawa Kunimasu I (Sadamasu)
- Utagawa Sadayoshi
- Utagawa Kunihisa II
- Utagawa Kunichika
- Utagawa Kuniaki I
- Utagawa Kuniaki II
- Utagawa Kunimasa IV
- Utagawa Kokunimasa
- Utagawa Kunisato
- Utagawa Kunitoshi
- Utagawa Toyokuni II (Toyoshige)
- Utagawa Kunitsuru
- Utagawa Kunimatsu
- Utagawa Kuniteru III
- Utagawa Kunimaru
- Utagawa Kuniyasu
- Utagawa Kuninao
- Utagawa Kuniyoshi
- Utagawa Yoshimune
- Utagawa Yoshiume
- Utagawa Yoshitsuya
- Utagawa Yoshifuji
- Utagawa Yoshiharu
- Utagawa Yoshitoyo
- Utagawa Yoshimori
- Utagawa Yoshimasa
- Utagawa Yoshitora
- Kawanabe Kyōsai
- Hayakawa Shōzan
- Utagawa Yoshiiku
- Kobayashi Ikuhide
- Utagawa Yoshitama
- Utagawa Yoshifusa
- Utagawa Yoshitoshi
- Utagawa Yoshikata
- Utagawa Yoshikatsu
- Utagawa Yoshijo
- Utagawa Yoshinobu
- Utagawa Yoshitorijo
- Utagawa Yoshitsuna
- Utagawa Yoshitsuru
- Utagawa Yoshikazu
- Utagawa Yoshitomi
- Utagawa Kunikiyo
- Utagawa Kunihisa
- Utagawa Kunitora
- Utagawa Kuniteru I
- Utagawa Kunihiro
- Ryūsai Shigeharu
- Utagawa Kunikage
- Utagawa Kuninaga
- Utagawa Hiroshige (Andō Hiroshige)
- Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)
- Utagawa Hiroshige III
- Risshō II
- Shōsai Ikkei
- Utagawa Shigemaru
- Utagawa Shigekiyo
- Utagawa Hirokage
Artists not associated with a particular school
- Kanbun Master
- Sharaku
- Sawa Sekkyō
- Setsuri
- Toriyama Sekien
- Ogata Gekkō
- Sugimura Jihei
- Kobayashi Kiyochika
- Kikukawa Eizan
Famous quotes containing the words schools of, schools and/or artists:
“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (17891851)
“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (17891851)
“... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)